The After, by Carlos Dengler

The After

by Carlos Dengler

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1.	Extremophile 06:53		buy track
2.	Mirrored Moss 07:51		buy track
3.	Silent Veil 07:00	info	buy track
4.	The Harvest 05:40		buy track
5.	Preparation 08:22		buy track
6.	Gift To The Fire 08:58		buy track
7.	Tomorrow's Halls 07:06		buy track
8.	The After 12:13		buy track

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An album preoccupied with spiritual themes, with transfiguration, the good life, with the soil, with the afterlife. The After is a meditation on timelessness and ethereality and their relation to the vanishing moment we call life.

The opening track, “Extremophile” pictorializes, through tableaus of near-waltzes, the passage of life lived in a connected fashion, in serenity and wisdom.

“Mirrored Moss” represents the fungal texture of the planet, how its totality resides as a meeting ground between animate and inanimate, which the nonvascular plants and the eukaryotic forms serve as the “middle ground” between those two polarities.

“Silent Veil” is the surreal dream state of communication with spirits already on the other side.

“The Harvest” is the dramatization of an agrarian myth, with giant cadences representing the earth delivering its grains in an all-encompassing feast.

The last four tracks represent a transfiguration from matter into the spectral stuff of the afterlife: “Preparation” is the laying of the body down, “Gift to the Fire” is the ritual burning of the body, “Tomorrow’s Halls” is the journey upward and “The After” is the floating, transcendent state within the outer plain.

“The Harvest” and “Mirrored Moss” feature the wonderful Paul Brantley on cello.

Album cover design by Nathan Youngblood.

In Loving Memory of David Walcyck.

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released December 8, 2023

All music composed and performed by Carlos Dengler
“The Harvest” and “Mirrored Moss” - Paul Brantley on cello
"Silent Veil" - Meena Ysanne on vocals

Album cover design by Nathan Youngblood.
Mastered By Rich Morales /Superfine Audio

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Carlos Dengler New York, New York

Carlos Dengler is an NYC-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, essayist, and actor. Carlos has three offerings on Bandcamp, Aqueduct and Ecospheres, both released in 2022, and Private Earth, released in 2023. Carlos first became known as co-founder of Interpol; he played bass/keyboards with the band beginning in 1998 and departed in 2010. ... more

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